Archive for January, 2010
History Challenge 01/25/10
January 25th, 2010 | 
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This week’s prize is a $15 gift card to Football Fanatics (To get your Colts AFC Champions gear 
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Born on January 18th, 1782 this statesman, congressmen, and lawyer is mostly know for being a gifted orator who pleaded many cases before the Supreme Court. He is quoted as saying the following: “If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” and “God grants Liberty to only those who love it and are always already to guard and defend it.”
A) Andrew Jackson B) Daniel Webster C) John Quincy Adams
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History Challenge 11/18/10
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This week’s prize is the book “A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes“
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1706 this founding father is quoted as saying the following: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Also: ” Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
A) Benjamin Franklin B) Thomas Jefferson C) George Washington
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A Tea Party Songbook for the New Revolution
History Challenge 01/11/10 Dangers of “Voluminous” and “Incoherent” laws
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This week’s prize is the DVD “Keys To Good Government“
Which founding father made the following statement: “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”
A) Alexander Hamilton B) Thomas Jefferson C) James Madison
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History Challenge 01/04/10 – The Limits of Government
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This week’s prize is the DVD “American Heritage Series, Vol. 1: Why History Matters“
Which founding father made the following statement: “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -lest it come to dominate our lives and interest.”
A) Alexander Hamilton B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Jefferson
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